Arnaldi / Bianchi Responsibility in Science and Technology

Elements of a Social Theory
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-658-11014-7
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 103 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Technikzukünfte, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft / Futures of Technology, Science and Society

The present volume elucidates the scope of responsibility in science and technology governance by way of assimilating insights gleaned from sociological theory and STS and by investigating the ways in which responsibility unfolds in social processes. Drawing on these theoretical perspectives, the volume goes on to review a ‘heuristic model’ of responsibility. Such a model provides a simple, tentative, though no less coherent analytical framework for further examining the idea of responsibility, its transformations, configurations and contradictions.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnaldi, Simone

Bianchi, Luca

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Responsibility and Social Action.- Expectations, Action Orientation and Implications for Responsibility.- Science, Technology and Society Relationships as the Background of Responsibility.- A Heuristic Framework for Responsibility.- Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Simone Arnaldi is post-doctoral research fellow in sociology at the University of Padua, Italy. Luca Bianchi is adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Trieste, Italy.